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Free Download Super Inequality: Theoretical Essays in Economics and Social Policy
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9819951682 | 158 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4.4 MB
This book bridges the disciplines of micro-economics and social policy in general, and, in particular, behavioral/explanatory social policy and public choice theory, plus Leibenstein’s X-efficiency theory. Being trained as an economist and social policy scientist, the author leaps out of the comfort zone of most social policy scientists and experts, right into the exciting world of micro-economic theory, and then extending and connecting those theories to explain major social, political and economic conundrums of our time.

Free Download Swaralipi Nandi, "The Postnational Fantasy: Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction"
English | 2011 | pages: 227 | ISBN: 0786461411 | PDF | 1,1 mb
In twelve critical and interdisciplinary essays, this text examines the relationship between the fantastic in novels, movies and video games and real-world debates about nationalism, globalization and cosmopolitanism. Topics covered include science fiction and postcolonialism, issues of ethnicity, nation and transnational discourse. Altogether, these essays chart a new discursive space, where postcolonial theory and science fiction and fantasy studies work cooperatively to expand our understanding of the fantastic, while simultaneously expanding the scope of postcolonial discussions.

Free Download Software Service and Application Engineering: Essays Dedicated to Bernd Krämer on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday by Maritta Heisel
English | PDF | 2012 | 195 Pages | ISBN : 3642308341 | 8.2 MB
This festschrift volume, published in honor of Bernd Krämer on the occasion of his 65th birthday, contains 11 contributions by close scientific companions. Covering topics like Petri nets and theoretical computer science, software and service engineering, cloud computing, and e-learning, the articles presented span the range of the scientific work of Bernd Krämer.

Free Download Lynnette Porter, "Sherlock Holmes for the 21st Century: Essays on New Adaptations"
English | 2012 | pages: 219 | ISBN: 0786468408 | PDF | 1,3 mb
The 21st century is a good time to be Sherlock Holmes. He stars in the recent Guy Ritchie films, with Robert Downey, Jr., playing the great detective; an internationally popular BBC television series, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock; a novel sanctioned by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate; and dozens of additional novels and short stories, including two by Neil Gaiman. Add to this video games, comic books, and fan-created works, plus a potent Internet and social media presence. Holmes’ London has even become a prime destination for cinematic tourists.

Free Download Shall We Play the Festschrift Game?: Essays on the Occasion of Lauri Carlson’s 60th Birthday by Diana Santos, Krister Lindén, Wanjiku Ng’ang’a
English | PDF | 2012 | 248 Pages | ISBN : 3642307728 | 3.3 MB
There are not many people who can be said to have influenced and impressed researchers in so many disparate areas and language-geographic fields as Lauri Carlson, as is evidenced in the present Festschrift. His insight and acute linguistic sensitivity and linguistic rationality have spawned findings and research work in many areas, from non-standard etymology to hardcore formal linguistics, not forgetting computational areas such as parsing, terminological databases, and, last but not least, machine translation. In addition to his renowned and widely acknowledged insights in tense and aspect and its relationship with nominal quantification, and his ground-breaking work in dialog using game-theoretic machinery, Lauri has in the last fifteen years as Professor of Language Theory and Translation Technology contributed immensely to areas such as translation, terminology and general applications of computational linguistics. The three editors of the present volume have successfully performed doctoral studies under Lauri’s supervision, and wish with this volume to pay tribute to his supervision and to his influence in matters associated with research and scientific, linguistic and philosophical inquiry, as well as to his humanity and friendship.

Free Download Practising Cultural Geographies: Essays in Honour of Rana P. B. Singh by Ravi S. Singh
English | EPUB | 2022 | 599 Pages | ISBN : 9811664137 | 145.5 MB
This festschrift honours Prof. Rana P.B. Singh who has dedicated his life to teaching and conducting research on cultural geography with a ‘dweller Indian perspective’. The book focuses on the cultural geographies of India, and to an extent that of South Asia. It is a rich collection of 23 essays on the themes apprised by him, covering landscapes, religion, heritage, pilgrimage and tourism, and human settlements.

Free Download Philosophy, Phenomenology, Sciences: Essays in Commemoration of Edmund Husserl by Filip Mattens, Hanne Jacobs, Carlo Ierna
English | PDF | 2010 | 731 Pages | ISBN : 9400700709 | 3.5 MB
The present volume contains many of the papers presented at a four-day conference held by the Husserl-Archives in Leuven in April 2009 to c- memorate the one hundred and ?ftieth anniversary of Edmund Husserl’s birth. The conference was organized to facilitate the critical evaluation of Husserl’s philosophical project from various perspectives and in light of the current philosophical and scienti?c climate. Still today, the characteristic tension between Husserl’s concrete and detailed descriptions of consciousness, on the one hand, and his radical philosophical claim to ultimate truth and certainty in thinking, feeling, and acting, on the other, calls for a sustained re?ection on the relation between a Husserlian phenomenological philosophy and philosophy in general. What can phenomenological re?ection contribute to the ongoing discussion of certain perennial philosophical questions and which phi- sophical problems are raised by a phenomenological philosophy itself? In addition to addressing the question of the relation between p- nomenology and philosophy in general, phenomenology today cannot avoid addressing the nature of its relation to the methods and results of the natural and human sciences. In fact, for Husserl, phenomenology is not just one among many philosophical methods and entirely unrelated to the sciences. Rather, according to Husserl, phenomenology should be a "?rst philosophy" and should aim to become the standard for all true science.

Free Download Orhan Pamuk, "Other Colors: Essays and a Story"
English | 2008 | pages: 439 | ISBN: 0307386236, 0307266753 | EPUB | 3,5 mb
A luminous essay collection about loneliness, contentment, and the books and cities that have shaped the experience of a Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red.

Free Download R. Jay Wallace, "Normativity and the Will: Selected Essays on Moral Psychology and Practical Reason"
English | 2006 | pages: 347 | ISBN: 019928749X, 0199287481 | PDF | 2,2 mb
Normativity and the Will collects fourteen important papers on moral psychology and practical reason by R. Jay Wallace, one of the leading philosophers currently working in these areas. The papers explore the interpenetration of normative and psychological issues in a series of debates that lie at the heart of moral philosophy. Themes that are addressed include reason, desire, and the will; responsibility, identification, and emotion; and the relation between morality and other normative domains. Wallace’s treatments of these topics are at once sophisticated and engaging. Taken together, they constitute an advertisement for a distinctive way of pursuing issues in moral psychology and the theory of practical reason, and they articulate and defend a unified framework for thinking about those issues. The volume also features a helpful new introduction.

Free Download Geoff Pilling, Doria Pilling, "Marxist Political Economy: Essays in Retrieval: Selected Works of Geoff Pilling"
English | 2016 | pages: 246 | ISBN: 1138241113, 0415678528 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
Geoff Pilling’s work shows that Marxist theory is relevant to those struggling to understand the problems of capitalist society today, and that the work not only of Marx and Engels but that of later Marxist theorists, including Lenin is worth studying. It also shows that to understand the problems of today’s society needs more than narrow specialist economic analysis, but a deep awareness of current developments in society.